negative

Example Sentences

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"NEGATIVE" Eide said contact with the Taliban began in early 2009, paused during Afghan elections in August and picked up after the vote until the arrests in Pakistan all but halted the process.

From Reuters • Mar. 19, 2010

To this question the country returned a deliberate and peremptory answer in the NEGATIVE; expressing thereby its will, that the existing system, which admits foreign corn on payment of fluctuating duties, should continue.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various

In general, the rain that first falls, after a depression of the barometer, is NEGATIVE.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

On the vote being taken, FREMONT'S name was recorded in the NEGATIVE.

From Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors by Brownlow, William Gannaway

That proof of the NEGATIVE, in this or in any such case, is by the nature of it impossible.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Carlyle, Thomas